The Deputy-President announced that he had received letters from the Leader of the Government, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate and the Leader of the Australian Democrats nominating Senators Sir John Carrick, Crowley, Macklin, Tate, Walters and Zakharov to be members of the Select Committee on the Human Embryo Experimentation Bill 1985.

The Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Senator Gietzelt), by leave, moved-That the Senators, having been duly nominated in accordance with the Resolution of the Senate of 17 October 1985, be appointed members of the Select Committee on the Human Embryo Experimentation Bill 1985.